Part of the reason why I believe judges cards should be required to judge any compo. Originality could be given much more weight than other things if that is the desired goal of the compo, so that re-entering the same program or entering a program that has been around publicly for quite some time would be considered ... not very original.

Honestly though, it should be totally disallowed to enter someone else's work in any compo. Misrepresentation simply is not right.

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This poll means nothing. People just have to change their nickname and their application name and we could believe it's an all new entry, while it's not.The clear thing would be:1) Don't take (so much) in account the people's vote. They can be and ARE cheated!2) Open a special thread during the competition. Everybody who sees an unfair entry, like for example another app done by another coder which is strangely similar to BeUp (which is open source). Then if people can prove the entry has cheated, this would be taken in account by the judges which would HAVE to read that thread. They would give less points to these entries.

Also, I think the same application should be allowed again only if a LOT of things changed. We can always encourage coders to continue working on their projects, else they'll stop them once the compo is terminated, and they will never be improved, bugs will not be corrected, and so on. This is a bad idea.

[3] we will open one poll to let user judge which entry is "original" entry.

I'm not sure if it's a good idea.. there will still be cheating... I -beleive- judges are intelligent enough to decide whether something is original or not .Plus, there should be some well DEFINED criterias, for example :

Originality : ?/10 ; Points allowed to a game/app according to how different the game/app compared to other games. Points could be given for Stylus and Dual screen use..